Nautilus Missing Icons Solved
Blog Entry on the Thursday 02nd, December, 2004
Solved the problems with lost nautilus icons in gnome when doing a apt-get upgrade. Selectng a theme for the icons helps!.
Also had another day of interviewing, alas this is a public blog.
I got an email from pipex, on the 7th of December, I shoud be one of the first to enjoy next generation 2Mbps residential ADSL broadband in the UK. Poker night tomorrow, visit to Essex saturday and another scan planned on Monday. Busy, Busy, Busy
December 7, 2004
Blog Entry on the Tuesday 07th, December, 2004
We went to the hospital for another scan yesterday. Seen a face, eyesockets, chin, knees, hands, legs, heart. Back again in two weeks, emotional.
Arrived - Zaurus SL-C3000
Blog Entry on the Tuesday 07th, December, 2004
Cool, I have my Zaurus SL-C3000, ShirtPocket imported it in to the UK.
First impressions really cool, I can type real quick on the keyboard. Scores on the doors: Intel XScale PXA270/416MHz, ROM 16M byte & RAM 64M, 4G Hard drive, CF slot, SD slot. More a sub-sub-laptop than a PDA.
ShirtPocket do not have, as yet, a case to fit the Zaurus SL-C3000, as I am a little clumsy I hacked together a case for the Zaurus. I used some spare material and a towel for extra padding.
Next step is to wait for the WLAN card, then maybe put chroot'ed debain for the zaurus. Then apt-get everything, all you could possible need.
Looks like some applications for the other zaurus's may not work on the SL-C3000, nevermind more fun. I may need to set up a cross compile tool chain for the zaurus. Might to nice to install cron, but it is still nice to have a hand-held with bash.
Also got my 2Mbps residential ADSL service installed today. Top marks to Pipex, same static IP address, minimal lose of service, all working after email, just faster.
Convert recorded phone clips to mpeg4 or mpeg1
Blog Entry on the Friday 10th, December, 2004
Convert from phone, Video.3gp to a 'normal' playable format.
ffmpeg -i ./Video\(02\).3gp -f avi -ar 48000 temp_1.mpg
ffmpeg -i ./Video\(02\).3gp -acodec mp2 -ar 22050 -f wav temp_1.mp2
# Frames Number divided by times output from above. But 2.7 appears correct.
mencoder -o temp_1.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc -fps 2.7 -nosound ./temp_1.mpg
ffmpeg -i ./temp_1.avi -i ./temp_1.mp2 -f avi other_1.mpg
# Not Necessary but enlarge and mpeg1
ffmpeg -i ./other_1.mpg -s 352:288 -vcodec mpeg1video -r 25 other_large_1.mpg
Festive Fault Control
Blog Entry on the Friday 10th, December, 2004
Fault Control Festive meal, getting old - home in time to blog.
December 12, 2004
Blog Entry on the Sunday 12th, December, 2004
I got my Wifi card for my Zaurus. In fact I had it all along. It was inside a cardboard plain box, that looked like just abox for back-up CDs. Once I opened the box this weekend, Volia :-
This means I had to make another pocket for my case:-
Next task, install debian on Zaurus C3000. Thank-you Gaetan Leurent for some excellant instructions. I think I will go to debian quite quickly, instead of messing around trying to get existing packages installed. Why not, it is IMHO the best distro.
The Sl-C3000 appears to have quite significant changes to the filesystem. I tried, ssh, and java for the C3000. All with very limited sucess. As I am now hooked on cron, ssh and other tool, its time for debian.
Instead of shorting silly renamin scipts, I should be doing some grub problem solving.
More Festive Fun
Blog Entry on the Friday 17th, December, 2004
Went out with the Graduates and ex Graduates. Tapas followed by beer.
And more beer. We were in a pub five doors away from David Blunkett's flat in london. We did spot him and the paparazzi, after he resigned. Lets hope this delays or stops the ID Card white paper.
Then more beer ....
Forum Support
Blog Entry on the Friday 17th, December, 2004
I have been know to answer queries the morphix forum, so perhaps it just Karma, but it was nice to get help and Support to install debain on my zaurus. Using vlc to play movies, but X11 can only cope with 4-6fps.
mencoder ./input.avi -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vop expand=176:144,scale=176:144 -o output.avi -ofps 8
Zaurus Screenshots
Blog Entry on the Saturday 18th, December, 2004
At the risk of going on and on, I have installed Gimp within Debain on my Zaurus SL-C3000. A machine, that is very small :-
Can do this:-
The only package I can not get is OpenOffice.org. Acutally as I write this blog I found Experimental debain arm OpenOffice.org. That would frankly take the mickey, imagine asking PocketPC to run MS Office. I stay with AbiWord at the moment as OpenOffice would crazy.
To me this is the best PDA on the market. For a number of reasons, GNU/linux, now with Debian, 4GB internal hard drive, Clam-shell design, 640x480 resolution, full keyboard and touch sensitive screen, USB Host, SD and CF slots. Ok the price tag is bad and it could a little heavy at around 300g. (IMHO - light). Its more of a mini-sub-laptop.
My gadget bugdet is gone, but gone to a good cause.
Yet More Scans
Blog Entry on the Tuesday 21st, December, 2004
Had another scan yesterday. Trying to find the apt term 'a scan of ____' ; bump, foetus, sprog, baby. Wow, deep words.
The Radiographer was very silent through-out, apart form a few 'hmmms'. Clean bill of health from what could be seen. Quite a long ten minutes. Gender not yet known. It is getting very real, fun, exciting and nervous.
England Cricket Running Smoothly
Blog Entry on the Wednesday 22nd, December, 2004
England have won eight test matches in a row. Straight wins, no draws. Considering one cricket test match takes five days to play and normally ends in a draw this is quite an achievement. England had managed seven wins in a row before in 1929, and in sometime in the the 1800's. The upcoming Ashes series should be fun to watch.
Captain Michael Vaughan may be given most of the credit, but as cricket is a game for gentleman, respect should go to Nasser Hussian - he resigned because he thought Vaughan was the better Captain and gracefully made way. In how many other sports would that have happened.
BTW - Cricket should not be watched, it should be listened to on Test Match Special. 'Well I can tell you the bowler's Holding the batsman's Willey', Botham's 'Leg over'[.real audio] - RIP Brian Johnston.
Practice for tonight - Speedy Santa - its fun.
Blog Entry on the Friday 24th, December, 2004
Played Speedy Santa at work.
Time: 8.442s, proof:-
Christmas Eve, not a creature was stirring . . .
Blog Entry on the Saturday 25th, December, 2004
Well presents are wrapped:-
Everyone is sleepy:-
And Allyson and I are singing songs.
You will go to the ball ....
Blog Entry on the Tuesday 28th, December, 2004
I had my surprise Christmas present yesterday. Went to see the Royal Ballet performing Cinderella, at the Royal Opera House. (Front row, balcony seats!) We stayed overnight in London at a Hotel walking distance from Covent Garden. Excellent present, thank-you Allyson.
All things considered, the next chance to go could be via the ballot.
December 29, 2004
Blog Entry on the Wednesday 29th, December, 2004
The human mind can not cope with 60,000 dead but a soon as you have a name it hits you.
Insha'allah
Ask.Slashdot.org - Work firewall stops ssh even on port 443.
Blog Entry on the Thursday 30th, December, 2004
For a while I have been running a ssh server on port 443 and using PuTTY at work to get though the firewall to my GNU/Linux box. Work has changed the firewall and proxy to only allow true http(s) GET requests. I am looking around to try to solve this problem. Does anyone know of way I can run an https server, so that inside the browser I have a ssh login. Maybe reverse corkscrew ?
December 31, 2004
Blog Entry on the Friday 31st, December, 2004
Before and after.
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